5. That the Selectmen of the several Towns and Districts within this Colony be desired to furnish the Soldiers, who shall enlist from their respective Towns and Districts, with good and sufficient Blankets, and render their accounts to the Committee of Supplies.

6. That if it should appear that the above number of men is not our full proportion with the other Governments, that this Convention will be ready to make a proper addition for that purpose.

Voted, That the thanks of this Convention be given to the persons who took away and secured for the use of this Government, a quantity of Gunpowder, from the Castle called William and Mary, in this Province.

Voted, That Colonel Thornton, Colonel Bartlett, Captain Whipple, Colonel Folsom, and Ebenezer Thompson, be a Committee of Safety, and that their Instructions be deferred until next week.

Voted, That Colonel Nicholas Gilman, Samuel Cutts, Esquire, Ichabod Rawlings, Esquire, Mr. Timothy Walker, Junior, Doctor John Giddinge, Mr. Thomas Sparhawk, and Colonel John Hale, be a Committee of Supplies, and that the giving them necessary Instructions be deferred until next week.

Voted, That Colonel Nicholas Gilman and Mr. Poor be a Committee to sell any quantity of Gunpowder, not exceeding four barrels, to such frontier Towns in this Province as they shall think most need it.

Voted, That the Reverend Mr. Stearns, the Reverend Mr. Webster, and Mr. Josiah Moulton the third, be a Committee to make a draught of a Letter in answer to one received from the Congress of the Massachusetts-Bay, as also a Letter to the Continental Congress, and lay the same before this Convention as soon as may be.

Adjourned to Monday next, three o’clock in the afternoon.

Monday, May 22, 1775, P. M.

Met according to adjournment.

The President being absent,

Voted, That Colonel Folsom be President pro tempore.

The Secretary being absent,

Voted, That Thomas Sparhawk be Secretary pro tempore.

Voted, That John Ackerman be brought before this body for examination.

Voted, That the examination of John Ackerman, Benjamin Hart, and John Pierce, be referred to the Committees of Portsmouth, Greenland, and Rye, and that if they find any thing worthy of notice, they make report to this body as soon as may be.

Voted, That John Ackerman be committed to Jail, and there remain until to-morrow morning.

Voted, That Major Samuel Hobart and Mr. Enoch Poor be Muster Masters for the present, and that they repair to Cambridge, as soon as may be, and the places thereabouts in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, and regularly muster all the men enlisted in the several Companies in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Stark, and that no men be accepted but those who are able-bodied effective men; also to inquire if any other men are enlisted by any other person or persons, and muster them, if any there be, and receive such only as are good effective men, and inform the Officers by whom such men are enlisted, that they immediately repair to the Committee of Safety at Exeter, there to represent the matter and receive instructions.

Voted, That it be left discretionary with the Muster Masters, how long men that have already enlisted into the Province service unarmed, shall continue there; and that those gentlemen are desired to make inquiry where Provisions, Chirurgeon’s Instruments, and Medicine can be procured, and upon what terms; also that they be desired to obtain the Rules of the several Committees of Safety and Supplies; and further to inform the Committee or Congress that there is a Post Office established at Exeter, and to know if their Post Rider, who comes to Haverhill, will proceed to the Post Office here; and report to the Convention as soon as may be.

Voted, That the two thousand men this body have agreed to raise be equally divided into three Regiments.

Voted, That Colonel Fenton be desired personally to appear and inform this body concerning the subject-matter of his Letter to the people of the County of Grafton.

Adjourned till to-morrow eight o’clock, A. M.

Tuesday, May 23, 1775, A. M.

Voted, That the Secretary prepare a List of the Delegates to keep a proper account of their daily attendance.

Voted, That there be a Post Office in Exeter.

Voted, That the Reverend Mr. Farrar, Mr. Sparhawk, and Mr. Edward Parsons, be added to the Committee for preparing a Letter to the Continental Congress.

Adjourned to three o’clock, P. M.

Met according to adjournment.

Voted, That Colonel Nathaniel Folsom be appointed to take the general command of the men that may be raised, or are already raised in this Government, for this season.

Voted, That Josiah Moulton, 3d, be added to the Committee of Supplies.

Voted, That there be procured some suitable person to officiate as Chaplain to each Regiment in the service.

Voted, That there be a Surgeon and Surgeon’s Mate procured for each Regiment.

Voted, That it be left to the Committee of Safety to recommend persons they think proper for Chaplains, Surgeons, and Surgeon’s Mates.

Voted, That the Committee of Safety procure proper forms for enlisting Soldiers, &c.

Voted, That Colonel Nicholas Gilman be Treasurer and Receiver-General of this Colony, and that he, with two sufficient sureties, give bond to the Honourable Matthew Thornton, Esq., President of this Congress, or his successor in that office, for the faithful discharge of his trust.

Voted, That there be raised, levied, and paid by the inhabitants of this Province, in the same proportion as was last used in levying and proportioning the Taxes of this Province, the sum of Three Thousand Pounds, lawful money, and paid unto Nicholas Gilman, Esq., of Exeter, as Treasurer appointed by this Convention, by the first day of November next.

Voted, That all Officers and Soldiers employed in the service shall be taxed as other persons are, according to their ability.

Adjourned till to-morrow, nine o’clock in the morning.

Wednesday, May 21, 1775.

Met according to adjournment.

Voted, That the Committee of Safety recommend three persons for Field-Officers in the Regiment now to be raised.

Voted, That it be recommended to the several Towns in this Government to encourage Manufactures in general, and that of Fire-Arms in particular.

Voted, That there be added to the Committee of Safety one from the County of Hillsborough, one from Cheshire, and one from Grafton.

Voted, That Mr. Enoch Poor be the first in command in the Second Regiment to be raised, under Colonel Folsom; Captain John McDuffee to be second, and Captain Joseph Cilley the third.

Voted, That Mr. Cutts, Mr. Wheelock, and Mr. Walker, be a Committee to examine into the state of our late Treasurer, Doctor Giddinge’s Account.

Voted, That Israel Morey, Esq., be one of the Committee of Safety.

Voted, That Captain Josiah Moulton be one of the Committee of Safety.

Voted, That Mr. James McGregory be added to the Committee of Supplies.

Voted, That the same forms for enlisting men in the several parts, to be used here as in the Massachusetts-Bay, mutatis mutandis.

Voted, That the Committee of Safety be empowered to issue orders for enlisting men sufficient for one Regiment, in the same manner as is practised in the Massachusetts-Bay; and receive returns of men enlisted, in the same manner as there.

Adjourned till to-morrow, eight o’clock in the morning.